Abandoned Sedgley chapel to be flattened for home

The chapel on The Ridgeway was already subject to permission for demolition after it became surplus to requirements of global Baptists and was too small for any other community use.

Dudley Council has now granted outline permission for the building to be replaced by a house.

The decision was among applications determined by the authority during November.

Also in November:

Permission was granted to allow the former Elephant and Castle pub on Cradley Road, Netherton to be converted into a private home.

Changes to the building will include a first floor extension, a new boundary wall, fencing and gates to create a five-bedroom home.

The former pub in Brierley Hill (Image: Google)

A bid to convert the former Dog and Lamp Post pub in Brierley Hill into flats was thrown out by Dudley Council planners.

The pub on Dudley Road, was earmarked to be converted into three apartments along with a new building to create a further two dwellings.

Planners decided the proposed development failed to meet design and minimum space standards plus it would cause traffic and parking problems.

Also in November:

Highways safety concerns were among the reasons for refusal of a plan to demolish the former House and Haven showroom on Mucklow Hill in Halesowen and replace it with an Asda and Starbucks. 

Developers already have planning permission to demolish the existing building, which is recognised on the Historic Environment Record for its distinctive 1950s design.

But their application to build and Asda store and Starbucks drive-thru in its place was turned down. 

The plan had attracted strong opposition from people in the area and planners also decided the new buildings failed to meet good design principles.

Concerns about noise and light pollution were also given as reasons for refusal.

A site in Delph Lane, Brierley Hill was given the go-ahead as a residential site for up to four caravans.

Planners concluded the site had been occupied for more than ten years and overruled an objection from a resident of Withymoor Village who said access to the site was unsuitable and privacy of properties in the boundary of the site would be affected.

The former Graham's Place pub in Wollaston (Image: Google)

The former Cottage Spring pub in Wollaston, Stourbridge, looks set for a new lease of life as a retail bakery after the council gave permission for a change of use.

The Bridgnorth Road building which dates in part to the nineteenth century closed as a pub, then known as Graham’s place, in 2021 and has been vacant ever since.

Planners imposed a condition that the building should only open to the public between 7.30am and 5pm.